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As written in the previous section, I managed to have a functional Honeycomb configuration app with Big Sur and followed the steps to make it the default profile as well as loading it in X-Plane. I noticed that with the Zibo loaded in a cold and dark situation, that I didn’t see the annunciator lights as expected, but it turned out that once I selected from the X-Plane Plugins – Honeycomb – BFC_Throttle menu “Reload Bindings”, the Zibo.json file was loaded and now, I have most of the light on the Bravo Throttle Quadrant illuminated. And of course, not only that, but also all the functions related to the Auto Pilot. This review has become a bit longer than expected. Since the start I collected a lot of additional information that resulted in a lot of enthusiasm, but also a lengthy review. Due to the length of this review and the chapters/sections about the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, I’ve decided to include a Table of Contents. I hope you’ll enjoy this review that covers my own explorations of this well designed, durable and looking great Honeycomb product. Table Of Contents There’s one more thing I would like to bring to your attention and that is using User Profiles and linking these user profiles to a certain aircraft. Lets go for an example; as you can see on the above GA related screenshot, it’s now all assigned to the “User Profile”. A better idea is to save it under a different name like GA Twin Engine.
I activated the profile I needed and it worked fine (All buttons and LEDS assigned in the configurator) When switching these 2 buttons, both engines will go in reverse and you can push forward to increase reverse trust. This works really well for interacting with the Bravo's lights. Unfortunately, if this is running, various other programs like A Pilot's Life and Pilot2ATC can't connect with the sim. Oddly, some other programs like Navigraph Charts will still connect. Hopefully this can be fixed, because other than that it's a lot better than the default Honeycomb bridge. The fun can start. I’m ready to start up X-Plane and test the Bravo Throttle Quadrant. This section is applicable to both Windows and macOS. The Bravo Throttle Quadrant is designed with a highly configurable reverse thrust design. ConclusionBBL provides a number of significant improvements over the original Aerosoft/Honeycomb Bravo Lights driver: Suppose you turn the selector knob on the left-hand side to VS (Vertical Speed) you can increase/decrease the VS value with the right-hand knob and of course, the X-Plane aircraft will correspond in accordance what you select. And last but not least, there’s an AP button on the far right to engage/disengage the AP. The only problem is, of this writing – January 2021 – I hardly could find at the X-Plane.Org or at the Aerosoft forum, dedicated Airbus json files. The only json file I found was for the ToLiss A319/A321, but no sign “yet” for the FlightFactor A320 Ultimate, the JARDesign A320Neo or their A330, the RW Designs A330, but for sure, the will come. All together worth to add this to your Honeycomb Throttle Quadrant, assuming you like Airbus aircraft!" There’s a small remark and that is when you fly as particular aircraft type, it’s not easy to see all the annunciator lights, positioned behind the PROP and MIXTURE levers or to operate all these free available switches. Actually, the space between the levers when in a fully FWD direction is a bit tight.
I thought there was an axis or on off for it. I think if it is mapped to an axis, there should be a sensitivity setting tied to it. I copied from xplane 11 folder but if I make changes to a profile and load into a plane in 12 the changes are not there. In the configurator I went to Profiles --> Import Profiles and I imported the profiles I needed from the honeycomb_profilesfolder inside the XP11 AFCBridgefolder The quirkiness in all this is the 3rd step which I marked as important. If you want to run both XP11 & 12 like me, every time you want to load a new profile you will have to make sure to start the correct executable from the respective AFCBridge folder. So technically you now have 2 configurators, one for XP11 and one for XP12.
Additional features include a general aviation autopilot, annunciator lights and a switch panel. The trim wheel and undercarriage lever can also be seen in this shot. Mounting
Two and four engine setups > Ideal for all 2-Engine Airbus aircrafts: from A300 to A350 plus 4-Engine A380 Although I was surprised that the out-of-the-box Bravo joy driver did a reasonable job with the Zibo 738, I did see a couple of things that where not correct. For instance, I had the ANTI ICE caution light illuminated, but there was no sign of no problem in the aircraft. I could use most Auto Pilot functions and knobs, but nothing happened on the MCP. That said, perhaps it’s a good idea to test this with the json file from flyillin06. Here we have the throttle layout for a typical general aviation twin, which is ideal for aircraft like the Piper PA-44 Seminole or Cessna 310 for example.The autopilot panel includes the usual functions as can be found in commercial and GA aircraft. The annunciator panel with 14 signal lights shows the most important status and warning messages of the board systems. You can buy the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant at the Aerosoft store, and soon also via X-Plane.Org. The Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant cost approximately 249,99 Euros including VAT. What’s most important and something you and I would expect, is that all the AP related switches and levers (remember, only for a 4 engine jet aircraft) are correctly assigned. There’s an additional row of switches in front of the levers. These switches are not yet assigned to anything, so you’re free to use them for your own. Of course, you’re always free to change other already assigned switches, or knobs to what you prefer, but basically it should be left assigned to the most logical switch, knob or lever. When you select for example the commercial four engine configuration, then all levers belonging to this are correctly assigned. Duplicating the C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\x-plane_install_12.txt file and renaming it x-plane_install_11.txt allowed me to install the software and it worked fine for me with latest XP12 Public Beta.
Now supports LVars with spaces in the names, which is needed for the NextGen EMB110. Thanks for the bug report, @Dimitri-dW! And this brings me to this 2nd Honeycomb hardware review. Many years ago I received from Saitek the Pro Flight Throttle, but I can tell you already that although the Honeycomb name is similar, it’s such a massive and impressive device I’d never expected, but more about that later. Regarding the warrantee there’s something different then with the Alpha Flight Controls which has a 5-year warranty on the tension belt, both Honeycomb devices have a 2-year overall limited warranty. And again I say …. is that good? No, that’s excellent! The Bravo Throttle Quadrant – Part I As others have said here, this is a no-brainer. If you have the Bravo Throttle, you really need this. I've had my throttle for a day and I've already made several changes to the annunciator panel. Seriously, if you read the instructions and can understand boolean logic, you can do it. So after probably a combined 5 hours between last night and this morning I have to ask. How do people get the throttle/prop/mixture axis programmed properly?
If an add-on aircraft has a dedicated developed AP, it could be that the assignments for AP commands are different then the ones assigned by the joy file. That said, when this happens you should go in my humble opinion for User Profiles. IMPORTANT!) I ran the honeycomb-configurator.exe from INSIDE the newly copied AFCBridge folder in XP12 plugins I have a dual installation of XP11 & 12 (till all my addon aircraft are compatible). After an initial frustration I managed to make the XP11 profiles work in XP12, but it is a bit quirky. Here's how I made it work:
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